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It can be used to describe a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone out of malice. Example: "Her spitefulness was evident when she spread rumors about her former friend." Alternatives include "malice" and "vindictiveness."
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spitefulness
noun
The state or quality of being spiteful.
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Spiteful things - amplified into shrieks like all spitefulness by social networks - will be murmured about Jews.
Nor is explosive power the only measure of a volcano's spitefulness.
He criticises proposals to punish rioters and their families by taking away benefits as "political spitefulness", driven by ministers who didn't enjoy feeling politically and socially impotent.
I turn on the screen and can mainline the words straight into the computer.' The article comments with not-so-subtle spitefulness on how young she is, just 19, and already getting '£500 for every thousand-word newspaper essay'.
This is Walter Smith's last Old Firm game – in two spells he has managed 55 matches against Celtic, and won 28 – but the only sentiment he feels is a weary sorrow for the kind of spitefulness that prompted someone to send parcel bombs.
What a strange ultimatum that is, at once romantic in the drama of its request and fiercely anti-romantic in the spitefulness of its threat.
Violet's kind of hyper-articulate spitefulness can be entertaining in the theatre, in the hands of an incisive actress like, say, Stockard Channing; the sour view of life, after all, has some truth to it and mirrors what we all feel at times.
And Hill's demeanor, as it appeared on television, was missing the gleam of spitefulness that a tale of spurned love requires.
In Arizona, notorious for its anti-immigrant laws, such spitefulness is all-but-official state policy.
Instead, however, their spitefulness appears to override all other considerations.
When Martin's dad confronts the bullies' father, Mr. Bonner makes a sad face, says, "Oh, no, they're awful, aren't they?" and introduces Mr. Moone to a group of men who have bonded over the spitefulness of their children.
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